'Astronomers have compiled evidence that what we've always thought of as the actual universe...represents a mere 4 percent of what's actually out there. The rest they call, for want of a better word, dark: 23 percent is something they call dark matter, and 73 percent is something even more mysterious, which they call dark energy.

'"We have a complete inventory of the universe," Sean Carroll, a California Institute of Technology cosmologist has said, "and it makes no sense." Scientists...have hardly a clue about dark energy.'

"Probing the Biggest Mystery in the Universe"
by Richard Panek
Smithsonian
April 2010


'The dark energy can take several forms, one provided by Einstein's resurgent cosmological constant and another related idea called quintessence...Quintessence, if true, would also be an energy field that permeates the universe. It can be disturbed and interact with itself. It is this aspect that distinguishes it from the cosmological constant which is...well...constant...If this all sounds rather fuzzy, this is because it is. This is research in progress. In research, confusion is good. It means that something doesn't hang together and you're about to learn something new. This is an exciting time in cosmology.'

Understanding the Universe: From quarks to the cosmos
Don Lincoln

Ha. I see I've just written something I published in this blog some time past, but here it is, expressing itself again this morning:

The short of it is, we have all these phenomena we westerners often avoid examining because we have no logical explanation given the earth-based physics/science that seems to work quite fine explaining everything else. However, now we have the relatively recent discovery that 90% or so of all matter in the universe is matter we can’t at this time perceive. I propose that this matter is composed of vibrating threads, forming a multidimensional cloth weaving dimensions of time and space together. It’s not just a cute thought that we are all connected. It is a physical fact that has been intuitively accepted in eastern thinking for centuries. A butterfly flaps its wings; the fabric resonates.

I think this theory could address phenomena including pre-cognition, synchronicities, and the physical synchronization among creatures such as flocks of starlings in flight or identical twins, the motion of schools of fish and stingrays, insect colonies that function like a brain with physically independent cells, and some events we speak of as miracles.

I'm not read up on dark matter and am not trained in physics, though I have some familiarity with the study of cosmology and the origins of the universe. This idea just seems to bring simple logic to connections and relationships we experience at this time as mysteries that defy the odds of coincidence. I'm sure many have expressed some form of this concept, but I give it my independent yes.